A celebrated Jodo-sect temple founded in 1415, known as the bodaiji of Odai-no-kata, the birth mother of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Its formal name is Muryozan Jukyo-ji, derived from Odai-no-kata's posthumous Buddhist name 'Denzuin-dono.' When Odai-no-kata died in 1602, Ieyasu rebuilt the temple in her honor. The precinct contains the graves of shogunal princesses including Senhime, and in the late Edo peri…
Denzuin is traditionally said to have been founded in 1415 by Joyo Yukei, a disciple of the eminent Jodo-sect monk Ryoyo Shogei. Its formal name is Muryozan Jukyo-ji. The temple remained modest in scale until 1602, when Odai-no-kata, the birth mother of Tokugawa Ieyasu, died within its precincts. Mo…
Cleansing impurity, spiritual purification, driving away evil. Rooted in misogi ablutions and goma fire rites.
Derived from the enshrined deity "阿弥陀如来"
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